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Bloodbound

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Bloodbound is a Visual Novel that's part of the Choices: Stories You Play collection. You've got a job as an assistant to the CEO of one of the hottest corporations in town, and one night you discover that not only is he a vampire, but that the city has many of them, in their own clans.

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Aerith and Bob: Kamilah, a relatively common name, has a brother named Lysimachus.

Kamilah can mention in Chapter 5 that she is one of Cleopatras cousins and served as her advisor.

Chapter 6 can have Adrian reveal he was close friends with David Bowie.

Adrian also knew Alexander Hamilton and George Washington. He calls Hamilton obnoxious and says he gave Washington tips during the Revolutionary War.

Gaius made a deal with the Founding Fathers to allow the vampires to live in New York City in exchange for their help in the Revolutionary War.

Betty and Veronica: The love interests are divided this way. The Bettys are Adrian (gentle and sweet) and Lily (funny and cheerful). The Veronicas are Jax (cynical and rebellious) and Kamilah (reserved and intimidating).

Big Applesauce: The setting of the story, where the most powerful clans reside.

Big Fancy Castle: Marcel Lafayette's castle, which originally stood in France before he brought every single brick over to America. It's complete with its own ballroom, library and nocturnal garden.

As usual with Choices Games, your character can date both girls and guys.

Lily is a more realistic and nuanced example than usual, as shes said she admits to finding certain guys attractive and has fooled around with both guys and girls, but in relationships she dates girls nearly exclusively.

Kamilah. She states that she has been with a prince and several princesses... at the same time.

Black and Nerdy: Lily is this in spades, usually on the couch playing video games.

"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: The economy of the Shadow Den is dependent on stealing from the clans, however Jax says 'stealing' isn't the word he would use.

Between Banner, Kamilah and Marcel over who's to blame for the angry commoners at their door.

Adrian warns Amy and Lily that the clans are on the brink of a civil war once they start pointing figures about who unleashed the Ferals at the Awakening Ball.

Blood Brothers: Kamilah has on multiple instances called Adrian her brother.

Kamilah: I've lost one brother. I'm not losing another.

Blood Magic: When a vampire is inducted into a clan, they're given a share of blood from the First Vampire, which keeps them from becoming a Feral.

Blunt Metaphors Trauma: Kamilah comically misses the point when it comes to figurative language, including misunderstanding the terms "you're killing me" and "badass," the latter of which she thought was actually referring to a person's buttocks.

Adam Vega hates clanless vampires to the point of waging a war of extermination against them.

The clanless hate the clans back, Griff Sanderson being a notable example. Upon finding out that Lily's a member of Clan Raines and Amy works for Adrian, he immediately acts hostile towards them.

The humans have hunted the vampires, resulting in the latter having to go into hiding. However, Gaius planned to change that by reversing the roles: he wanted to turn one portion of the humans into blood bags for the vampires and have the other killed off.

Fate Worse than Death: Being clanless. In addition to being poor and on the run, without a clan, vampires are at constant risk of becoming Feral and being killed by clan leaders who want to see their kind eradicated.

Flash Back: Amy keeps on having unexplained flashbacks of Adrian, Kamilah and Gaius.

The first one is of when Adrian was Turned by Gaius during the Revolutionary War. Initially scared, Gaius convinces Adrian to indulge on his Horror Hunger and he ends up draining a British soldier of his blood.

The second one is of Kamilah, Marcel, Banner and Gaius. The doors of their palace is barricaded against angry commoners. After a Curbstomp Battle against the peasants encouraged by Gaius, he reveals his plans to take them over to America where they would permanently settle.

The third is of the above four + Adrian. Gaius announces to Kamilah, Marcel and Banner that he struck a deal with the Founding Fathers to allow them to settle in New York where he would reign as king. Despite Gaius' warnings, Banner refuses to join them and so Gaius has Adrian kill him.

The fourth fragment is of Kamilah and Gaius in ancient Egypt during the war against the Romans. Her soldiers bring "the Undying Centurion," Gaius, to her, chained. Gaius suggests the two come to an agreement, but Kamilah refuses. He then breaks free of his chains, kills her soldiers and Turns her into a vampire so that she can be his queen.

The fifth one is of the vampire council members in the 1920s, when Gaius gathered them around to show his plan to enslave humanity as vampires reign supreme. This plan horrifies most of them, especially Adrian, who said that not only will humans hate vampires even more, but also said there are some decent humans in the world.

The last one takes place soon after the last; the Council members bar Kamilah stand before Gaius as he announces his plan to take out humanity. All voice objections, but Gaius is undeterred, so they attack Gaius. Despite being outnumbered 5 to 1, Gaius overpowers the members, but Kamilah suddenly appears and bisects Gaius. Adrian announces this as an opportunity to make themselves a Council, and to keep Gaius alive but contained in case he is needed in the future... but as the bonus scene that occurs if you got all 5 flashback scenes shows, keeping Gaius alive was a terrible mistake on Adrian's part.

Frameup: Adrian is wrongfully accused of being responsible for unauthorized Turnings and the attack on the Awakening Ball.

Fugitive Arc: The gang flees New York City to avoid vampires hunting them, specifically Adrian.

Garden of Love: Kamilah and Amy visit Marcel Lafayette's nocturnal garden, where they talk about love and end up cuddling.

Nicole comes to pick up Adrian when he's rescued from prison in chapter 13.

That same chapter, Jax enthusiastically hops into the driver seat to become the driver, excited to drive Adrian's car.

Girls' Night Out Episode: A premium scene in Chapter 7 has Amy, Lily and Kamilah go to the former's old apartment to pack their stuff to move out in case whoever it was that attacked Lily comes back for her. The two of them take the time to turn it into a bit of a party much to the older vampire's chagrin, but she comes around to it.

Great Escape: Chapter 13 is centered around breaking Adrian out of prison. Amy has the premium option to free all of the prisoners, who set the prison along with the speakeasy on fire.

Hello, Nurse!: Kamilah is noted multiple times to be incredibly beautiful, gaining the praises of Amy, Lily (who calls her the prettiest woman she has ever seen) and, apparently, everyone in Italy.

Hemo Erotic: Adrian sucks your blood during sex. Amy is also rather turned on when Jax sucks her blood.

Hotter and Sexier: Word of God describes the book as sexy urban thriller, and they stuck to their word. There are many many more innuendos compared to other books, including allusions to masturbation and erotica, as well as the app's first instance of a threesome.

Human Resources: Per council rules, vampires can only drink blood from humans who consent, however in the past, Gaius wanted to keep the humans strictly as blood bags.

Humans Are Flawed: Adrian tries to convince Gaius that while humans are challenging to deal with, there are still good ones out there.

Humans Are the Real Monsters: Gaius is tired of being on the run from the humans and being second to them, despite that they are prey to the vampires.

The Hunter Becomes the Hunted: Tired of the vampires being hunted by the humans, Gaius discloses to Adrian, Kamilah and the others his plan to make the humans hunted by the vampires to either become livestock to them or killed.

Laser-Guided Amnesia: After the events of Chapters 2 and 3, Adrian offers to have Amys memories of learning about the vampire world erased as more of a mercy. She refuses, though the offer is on the table.

Lesbian Vampire: While Priya's sexuality hasn't been confirmed, she's taken an extreme liking for Amy, having attempted to seduce and bribe her on at least three occasions to let her suck her blood.

New vampires MUST be branded into a clan with an opening slot. Vampires sired without a clan are at risk of becoming Feral.

Sunlight still hurts vampires and in prolonged exposure of more than thirty minutes, they can get gravely injured and die.

While they can't fly or turn into bats, vampires do have superior strength than the average human.

In the case of Ferals, all of them are mindless monsters. For a clanless vampire, a possible delay is to drink the blood of a loved one.

Parlor Games: Adrian, Amy, Lily and Kamilah play truth or dare on their way to the Awakening Ball.

Pervert Revenge Mode: When Lester touches Amy inappropriately, she can either slap him or have Adrian crack his wrist.

Play-Along Prisoner: Gaius is captured by Kamilah's forces to be interrogated for his supernatural abilities, however he easily breaks free because they mistakenly think vampires are repulsed to silver chains.

Plucky Comic Relief: Lily frequently chimes in with her humorous comments even in dire situations.

Roaring Rampage of Rescue: Amy, Lily, Kamilah, Jax and Nicole plan an operation to rescue Adrian from captivity in The Baron's prison.

Really 700 Years Old: Most of the clan leaders are implied to be older than a century. Adrian mentions that Priya Lacroix is the youngest of the Clan Leaders, being only 150 years as a vampire. Kamilah tells Amy that she was Cleopatra's cousin (meaning more than 2,000 years old).

The Renfield: Nicole is the chief example of this, serving as Adrian's go-to blood supply.

Revised Ending: In the original release, when first being introduced to Priya, Adrian states that she is the youngest member on the Council. The line was later changed for Adrian to simply state that Priya is a young vampire, because The Baron was in fact younger than her, thus creating a continuity error.

Sadistic Choice: Book 1 Chapter 15 gives you the choice to save either Liv Denara or Griff Sanderson, dooming the other to die at the hands of Ferals. While Liv is far more sympathetic than Griff, letting the latter die means Lula Jacobs will lose her surrogate father.

The Scapegoat: The clanless. Some of the members of The Council are holding them responsible for the creation of Feral.

Series Continuity Error: Priya is originally said to be the youngest member on the Council at 150 years old, however given that The Baron was in life a gangster from the Prohibition Era, this would mean that he is the youngest member. The line was subsequently rewritten to only state that Priya is young.

In Amy's interview, Adrian mentions that she spent a year volunteering in San Trobida, the fictional native country of Estela Montoya.

Chapter 7 has a premium scene where Amy and Lily can see a scene from a movie called Habeas Corpse-us which is Zombie apocalypse meets Air Force One with Matt Rodriguez as the President spouting cheesy one liners. His manager got the movie pulled and Priya used her money to buy a copy of the movie.

Shrine to the Fallen: The Wall of the Fallen, a wall at the Shadow Den of deceased vampires who either turned Feral or were killed by the clans.

Stalker with a Crush: One of the Clan Lacroix members had an obsession with Liv Denara, a human burlesque dancer. One night, he attempted to kidnap her, she fought back, and so he Turned her and left her to become a Feral until Jax found her.

Super Speed: While never explicitly stated to have super speed, Adrian and Kamilah are seen moving at a quicker speed than humans.

Super Strength: Vampires have this ability. Adrian says he can lift a car and Lily enthuses about punching a hole in a brick wall.

Synthetic Plague: Gaius plans on killing off the portion of humans he doesn't plan using as blood bags for the vampires with a modified form of the smallpox he created, to the horror of the other vampires.

This Means War!: Griff shouts this when the clanless find out Kamilah tried to sneak into their den.

Chapter 4 has Amy and Adrian walk in to find her roommate Lily with fresh bite marks on her neck.

The Bonus Scene shows that Gaius has survived 80 years, looking very withered and ready to have revenge on the Council.

Writers Cannot Do Math: According to Kamilah herself, she is around 2000 years old, and she claims to be Cleopatras cousin, who was born around the year 69 BC and died around the year 10 or 12 BC (making Cleopatra 39 when she died), making Kamilah a lot younger than Cleopatra could have been.

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